Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Jack Burns, Joan Gerber, Kristina Holland, Lennie Weinrib, Tom BosleyBrand: Turner
Writer: Bill Manhoff
Writer: Charles Anthony
Writer: Charles Isaacs
Writer: Fred S. Fox
Writer: Harriet Belkin
Writer: Harvey Bullock
Writer: Jack Elinson
Writer: Mark Kammerman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 589 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Product features:
- Wait Till Your Father Gets Home chronicles the lives of the Boyles, your average 1970's American family. Harry Boyle, the father, owns a restaurant supply company. His wife Irma portrays the typical housewife, with an occasional independent flare. Harry and Irma have three children: Chet, Alice, and Jamie. Chet, who is 22, is a college dropout, who spends most of his time sleeping. Alice is a rath
DVD Reviews of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
I received this product a few days after ordering it. The first DVD was Ok, but the second, in the middle of one of the episodes, the color faded to a muddy color and it was difficult to see what was on the screen for a minute. Other than that, I like the quick delivery and enjoyed the rest of the DVD.DVD Review: Great Show
Summary: 5 Stars
Use to watch this show all the time back in the '70s until it got canceled. Glad they finally put it on DVD which I have season one.
Come on people lets get the rest of the show released!
DVD Review: So happy they put this on DVD!
Summary: 4 Stars
I learned about this show on Cartoon Network and loved it from the moment I saw it. I haven't watch all the episodes in this in this First Season yet, so my review is not going to be that in-depth.
The only drawback I can think of so far is the fact that the first couple of episodes aren't as funny but as I go up in episodes, it does get funnier.
I'm really glad I bought it and glad I found it on Amazon.
DVD Review: A great family sitcom
Summary: 5 Stars
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this program, one which I but dimly recalled from my childhood past. Despite the reviews, Harry Boyle is not so much a "conservative" in the political sense but a defender of rationality in a world confused by the increasingly divisive politics and social conflict of the early 1970's. However, Harry is usually able to bridge the gap between his progressive children and his paranoid, bigoted neighbors. Most importantly, Harry is respectful of his children's point of view while still serving as the moral center of his household. In all, it's a far cheerier world than, say, All in the Family.
As far as the animation goes, it's not earthshaking, but it is stylish, with abstract minimalist backgrounds that are quite pleasing.
DVD Review: Episode Guide for the first season
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's a quick summary of the 24 episodes that aired during the 1972-73 season.
1. The Fling: Harry helps a female customer and so people have the impression that he cheats on his wife. He does his best to change their assumptions, but it just makes things worse.
2. Alice's Dress: The Boyles are invited to a party. Alice decides to buy a dress for the event, but it turns out to be way too revealing.
3. The Hippie: After Chet brings home a hippie, Harry does everything he can to get him to leave. Meanwhile, Ralph and his Company B Anti-Communist Force track the hippie, thinking he's a communist. They construct the "Great Wall of Elm Street" in an attempt to save the rest of the neighborhood from being exposed to the "traitors".
4. The Beach Vacation: The Boyles rent a beach house and Harry is horrified when he sees young people sunbathing nude nearby. Hilarity ensues.
5. Help Wanted: Harry fires his Jewish driver, but soon learns that this was a big mistake. Now all different minorities start competing to get the job.
6. Love Story: Alice gets engaged to a beggar. Her parents are horrified, but when they find out that his parents are very rich, they're suddenly pleased with him.
7. The Victim: Harry gets beaten and mugged in the park. Chet and Alice try to help the young criminal, but Harry has other plans: he wants to sue him.
8. Chet's Job: Harry starts demanding Chet pay rent and forces him to get a job. But soon Chet's new opportunity is paying more money than Harry is comfortable with.
9. Chet's Fiancee: Chet brings a young, attractive and decent young woman home as his girlfriend. Of couse Harry and Alice are surprised. When Chet tells them he's not interested in marrying her, they are offended.
10. The Mouse: Jamie brings home a pet mouse. After being told that he can't keep it, the mouse escapes. Jamie blames Harry and runs away.
11. Duty Calls: Chet gets his draft notice and decides to flee to Canada. Harry is furious until he is accidentally drafted himself.
12. Expectant Papa: Irma and Harry think they might be parents again. Their friends' reactions aren't so positive to the news.
13. The New Car: The Boyles buy a new car that turns out to be a lemon, but the shady dealer won't give them a refund. Harry finds a creative way to get his money back.
14. The New House: A severe bathroom shortage in the Boyle household has Harry wondering if he should renovate or buy a bigger house.
15. The Prowler: A burglar in the neighborhood causes hysteria about a crime wave and Ralph forms a militia. They take the law into their own hands and of course Harry gets caught up in it.
16. Mama's Identity: Irma is sick of being a housewife and gets a job in a law firm. But when her new boss starts coming on to her, she begins to regret her decision.
17. Papa the Patient: Harry's checkup for an ulcer leads to an expensive hospital stay, which really fires up his blood pressure.
18. The Swimming Pool: During the heat of the summer Harry decides to build a swimming pool. Unfortunately, it's too small for the entire family to use it simultaneously. He and Ralph build a bigger one, but now the entire neighborhood wants to enjoy it.
19. Sweet Sixteen: Alice's 16th birthday is coming up and so Irma plans a big party. The expenses get out of control and Harry realizes he's headed for the poor house.
20. The Commune: Alice quits school to join a commune, and Harry clashes with the hippie guru who is trying to lure her.
21. Music Tycoon: Chet and his band have a huge hit and the money starts rolling in. Unfortunately Chet doesn't know how to manage it.
22. Accidents Will Happen: Harry slips in a restaurant and ruins his pants. Everyone advises him to sue the restaurant, but he only wants a new pair of pants.
23. Papa in New York: Harry has to go to NYC for business. His family and his neighbor Ralph want to join him on the trip... and of course everyone has fun except Harry.
24. The Neighbors: Marital misunderstandings abound as the Boyles get caught in the middle of a fight between newlyweds.
Description of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - The Complete First Season
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home chronicles the lives of the Boyles, your average 1970's American family. Harry Boyle, the father, owns a restaurant supply company. His wife Irma portrays the typical housewife, with an occasional independent flare. Harry and Irma have three children: Chet, Alice, and Jamie. Chet, who is 22, is a college dropout, who spends most of his time sleeping. Alice is a rather robust 16-year-old, who teams up with her mother, to display the independence of women, in the 70's. Jamie is the Capitalist of the family, even though he is only 9.Like All In the Family, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home's social commentary works because it appeals to every member in the household. Mocking nuclear family norms, this animated series is more radical than most Hanna-Barbera cartoons featuring dogs in hats, ghosts from space, and other zany characters. Wait Till Your Father Gets Home banks on stereotypes: the bread-winning, straight-laced, "crew cut" father, Harry Boyle (Tom Bosley of Happy Days), housewife, Irma, and their three revolutionary children. Alice, the conflicted feminist on a constant diet, Chet, proto-slacker perpetually meditating with long hair and bell bottoms, and the little businessman, scoffing idealism to emulate his father's good sense. Each episode in The Complete First Season explains the generation gap between baby boomers and hippies, making a virtual history book of what kids disagreed with back in the early seventies. In "The Hippie," Chet adopts a vagrant buddy to his parents chagrin. In "The New Car," Harry laments a consumerist society based on sales scams rather than old-fashioned customer service. In "Mama's Identity," Irma takes Alice's advice to reject her housewife lifestyle for an equally degrading secretarial position in a law office. And in each episode, The Boyle's racist, pro-war neighbor, Ralph, offers a glimpse into the paranoid fantasies upheld by those who feared post-Cold War, Communist takeover. This is not to mention the radical animation approach taken by Hanna-Barbera, who hired a Playboy cartoonist, Marty Murphy, to design the characters. The intro sequence has a soundtrack reminiscent of Schoolhouse Rock, and the fact that people are rendered in full color against flat, line-drawn backgrounds only further emphasizes the social aspect of the series. These sophisticated, adult cartoons are fresher now than they were when us kids viewed them back in the day. -Trinie Dalton
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